From www.HughHewitt.com:And, finally, review the Colorado College website. The college has inexplicably asked Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi to deliver a keynote address at its symposium "September 11: One Year Later." Every individual I ask about this reacts the same way --it is an outrage, but a predictable one from a screwy college dominated by the posturing left. The President of Colorado College, Richard Celeste, has been gamely battling the critics, but no series of cliches about "provoking critical and engaged thought" can cover this insult to the dead and wounded. The College has invited an apologist for terror to give a major address on the impact of terrorism on the U.S.Somebody should be fired, and Celeste should stop trying to spin the insult.
Here it is, John.HURRY BACK!!!
and from http://www2.coloradocollege.edu/academics/9-11oneyearlater/Participants/ashrawi.htm:SEPTEMBER 11:
ONE YEAR LATER
RESPONDING TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES
THE WILLIAM JOVANOVICH SYMPOSIUM
COLORADO COLLEGEParticipants
Keynote Address
Thursday, September 12, 10:30 AMHanan Ashrawi, Founder and Secretary General of the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH), served since 1996 as an elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Jerusalem District, earned her Ph.D. in Medieval and Comparative Literature from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville...
SEPTEMBER 11: ONE YEAR LATER
THE WILLIAM JOVANOVICH SYMPOSIUM
COLORADO COLLEGE
Hanan Ashrawi
DR. HANAN ASHRAWI, Founder and Secretary General of the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy [MIFTAH], a compelling and influential voice in the contemporary theatre of Middle Eastern politics, has been a central player in the struggle for a Palestinian homeland. A tireless campaigner for human rights, she has distinguished herself in both the academic and political arenas. Her academic expertise has played a vital role in the development and recognition of Palestinian culture, while her longstanding political activism on behalf of the Palestinian people has contributed greatly to the establishment of an independent and self-governing Palestine.
Dr. Ashrawi received her Bachelor and Master's degrees in literature in the Department of English at the American University of Beirut. After earning her Ph.D. in Medieval and Comparative Literature from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Dr. Ashrawi returned to her homeland in 1973 to establish the Department of English at Birzeit University on the West Bank, just as the university was transforming itself from a two-year college to a four-year institution of higher learning. She served as Chair of that department from 1973 to 1978, and again from 1981 through 1984; and from 1986-1990 she served the university as Dean of the Faculty of Arts. She remained a faculty member at Birzeit University until 1995, publishing numerous poems, short stories, and papers and articles on Palestinian culture, literature, and politics and editing the Anthology of Palestinian Literature. In the field of literature, she is author of The Modern Palestinian Short Story: An Introduction to Practical Criticism; Contemporary Palestinian Literature under Occupation; Contemporary Palestinian Poetry and Fiction; and Literary Translation: Theory and Practice.
Dr. Ashrawi's political activism in Palestine began almost as early as her academic career at Birzeit. In 1974, while the university was suffering intermittent closures by the Israeli military, she founded the Birzeit University Legal Aid Committee/Human Rights Action Project. Her political work took a greater leap in 1988 during the Intifada uprising, when she joined the Intifada Political Committee, serving as well on its Diplomatic Committee until 1993. From 1991 through 1993 she served as the Official Spokesperson of the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Process and a member of the Leadership/Guidance Committee and Executive Committee of the Delegation.
In 1993, with the signing of the peace accords by Arafat and Rabin, Palestinian self-rule was established. Dr. Ashrawi headed the Preparatory Committee of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens' Rights in Jerusalem, and was the Founder and Commissioner General of that committee until 1995. From 1996 through 1998 she served as Minister of Higher Education and Research. In August of 1998 she founded the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy, and has served as secretary general of that organization since that time. Dr. Ashrawi has also served since 1996 as an elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Jerusalem District.
Dr. Ashrawi is a member of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo and of numerous international advisory boards including the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Bank Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA), and the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). In addition to the publications on literature cited above, Dr. Ashrawi's most recent writings include From Intifada to Independence and her autobiography, This Side of Peace: A Personal Account.
"The most critical warning" of Sept. 11, to borrow from Dick Celeste, is that tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of radical Islamists want to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans. Another warning is that this group is skilled at planning and ruthless in executing acts of terror. A third warning is that this group will use weapons of mass destruction and suicide bombers. A fourth warning is that the war is begun.......At some point, the refusal to face 9-11 for what it was and what it did, who did it and why, ought to be disqualifying on an individual's participation in public life. At some point courtesy toward the Celestes of the country must end because it becomes too dangerous to indulge the fools and the delusional any more.
Dick Celeste and Colorado College have passed that point. - Hugh Hewitt
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SEPTEMBER 11: ONE YEAR LATER RESPONDING TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES
THE WILLIAM JOVANOVICH SYMPOSIUM COLORADO COLLEGE Participants Keynote Address Thursday, September 12, 10:30 AM
Hanan Ashrawi, Founder and Secretary General of the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH), served since 1996 as an elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Jerusalem District, earned her Ph.D. in Medieval and Comparative Literature from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Keynote Address Friday, September 13, 10:30 AM
Gideon Doron, President of the Israeli Association of Political Science, a member of the Executive Board of the International Political Science Association, Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University, and author of Awaiting Representation: Politics of Women in Israel and Public Policy and Electoral Reform.
The New International Disorder Thursday, September 12, 2:30 PM Gideon Rose, Ph. D., Harvard University, Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs since December 2000, former Olin Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, during which time he served as Chairman of the Council's Roundtable on Terrorism.
Ron Suny, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago (Ph.D., Columbia), Director of the Nations and Nationalism Workshop, author of The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union.
* David Hendrickson (discussant), Chair and Professor of the Political Science Department (International Relations) at Colorado College, Ph.D. John Hopkins University, B.A. Colorado College, co-author of The Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America's Purpose.
Evaluating U.S. Responses to Terrorism Thursday, September 12, 7:00 PM Michael McCann, Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley; professor of Political Science at the University of Washington; Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship; Director of Comparative Law and Society Studies Center, Director of Law, Societies, and Justice.
Thom Shanker, Pentagon correspondent for The New York Times, former foreign editor of the Chicago Tribune, and the first reporter to uncover and write about the Serb campaign of systematic mass rape of Muslim women. Shanker graduated Cum Laude in Political Science at Colorado College and has had foreign postings to Moscow, Berlin and Bosnia.
* Andrew Dunham (discussant), Professor of Political Science (Public Policy) at Colorado College, Ph.D. University of Chicago, Congressional Fellow in 1983-84, served from 1983 to 1993 on the editorial board of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Religious Identity, Islam and Women’s Liberation Friday, September 13, 12:30 PM (box lunch served) Maysam al-Faruqi, Ph.D. in Islamic Studies at Temple University; Visiting Assistant Professor in Theology at Georgetown University; specializes in Islamic law, Islamic theology, and Qur'anic studies; author of "Women's Self-Identity in the Qur'an and Islamic Law," a chapter in Windows of Faith: Muslim Women Scholar-Activists in North America.
Riffat Hassan, Ph.D., University of Durham, professor of Religious Studies and Humanities at University of Louisville; a pioneer in Islamic feminist theology, founder of The International Network for the Rights of Female Victims of Violence in Pakistan (INRFVVP), a non-profit organization (1999), present adviser to Pakistani president, General Musharraf, on women’s issues.
* Margi Duncombe (discussant), Ph.D., University of Denver, present chair and professor of Colorado College Sociology Department, former director of institutional and research planning, former director of Women Studies at the Colorado College.
* Eileen Bresnahan (discussant), Ph.D., Yale University, professor and director of Women’s Studies, Colorado College.
Poverty and the Causes of War Friday, September 13, 2:30 PM Robert Kaplan, Correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, essayist, lecturer, and author, most recently, of Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos. Kaplan, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, has lectured at military war colleges, the CIA, the FBI, the State Department, and many colleges and universities, and he has reported from nearly 80 countries.
David Laitin, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; Professor of Political Science, Stanford University, author of the essay "Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic Identities" (with James Fearon) in International Organization (October, 2000), recipient of Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation two year grant (1997-99) to examine ethnic and nationality relations in Moldova and Azerbaijan.
* Lief Carter (discussant), Ll.B., Harvard Law School, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, McHugh Distinguished Professor of American Institutions and Leadership and Professor of Political Science, Colorado College, Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley. His book Reason in Law now appears in its sixth edition.
* Robert Lee (discussant), Professor of Political Science (Comparative Politics of the Middle East) at Colorado College, Ph.D. Columbia University, He has translated and edited the work of Mohammed Arkoun, Rethinking Islam, and is the author of Overcoming Tradition and Modernity: The Search for Islamic Authenticity.
Can Liberal Democracy Accommodate Religious Fundamentalism? Saturday, September 14, 9:30 AM Milner Ball, Harmon W. Caldwell Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Georgia School of Law; ordained Presbyterian minister and author of Called by Stories: Biblical Sagas and Their Challenge for Law (2000), The Word and The Law (1993), and Lying Down Together (1985).
David Weddle, Chair and Professor of Religion at Colorado College, Ph.D. Harvard; author of The Law as Gospel: Revival and Reform in the Theology of Charles G. Finney and past president of the American Theological Society (Midwest division).
* Tracy Coleman (discussant), Ph.D., Brown University, Associate Professor of Religion, Colorado College.
* Ruba Salih (discussant); Visiting Professor of Political Science at Colorado College.
It just doesn't change with those two. If they can stand on the wrong-ass end of right, count on em 100% to be there.
But, really, there has to be an end to going along to get along and get a check. It will be a memorable and estimable day when a high-profile pundit declares that, for goodness sake, there isn't enough money in the world to get them to go along with this or that stupid premise.This part is EASY!If and when you see such moral courage on display, please send me an e-mail...
Paging Hugh Hewiit!
Please see the COLORADO Chapter of Free Republic, from:Operation Infinite Freep: Colorado Style August 31, 2002
Colorado Chapter of FreeRepublic ^ | 08/31/02 | Tom Buchanan
Posted on 08/31/2002 9:27 PM Pacific by fivetoes
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Here is Yvonne. She is great at researching just about anything.
I wonder if he would say this if David Duke came to speak.
BUMP!
